Wise words, Julia:
Therefore I believe agnosticism is the only logical position.
Although I'm convinced that neither of the mainstream deities is for real, I cannot provide proof positive that any one of them cannot indeed be the one exception. Statistically, it is unlikely bordering on impossible that one fictive spirit out of thousands of mutually exclusive contestants should indeed exist. Especially the Soloists among them, who have been invented with a claim to exclude every alternative, make my skin crawl with disbelief. Disbelief how Millions of believers can be persuaded to park their brain at the entrance and reconcile irreconcilably contradictory attributes in a supreme being that is simultaneously all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, and all-merciful - but gets cranky and petulant like a spoiled brat when one of his subjects fails to pay lots of equally contradictory dues of respect, fear, and saccharine-sweet swooning love and affection. Who in addition has to pervert his peace-loving followers into doing the dirty work for him - remember: the all-powerful, all-knowing Supremo - relying on his minions to violently slaughter those that adore a similar being with all the same incredible attributes, only a different name.
Well - that much I know: It's not a way to run a Universe.
I may have some ideas of how to improve matters, and even a (very mediocre, IMHO) science fiction writer has recently concocted a script to that end; pity he plagiarised the basics from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", then embellished it with pulp Fantasy from B and C grade wannabe's.
But in my honest heart of hearts, I have to admit I don't really know either how this Universe ought to be run as a going concern. Which is the literal meaning of "
Agnostic", a label I'd be happy to wear - were it then compulsory to wear a label.